Test 14 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

Did the king say sorry in the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorry	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	past · do-support	the king					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, he wanted to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wanted to apologise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 apologise	mark
6	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	apologise speech: apologize not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he wanted to apologise to Tibraide' and also to all his men there

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 apologise	mark
6	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Tibraide	case
8	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 apologise	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Tibraide	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 men	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	15 men	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 men	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 men	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 men	nmod:poss
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Tibraide	conj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 men	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	apologise speech: apologize not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		Tibraide and his men				tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted to apologise, and he did so very humbly at the gate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 apologise	mark
6	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 humbly	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 humbly	advmod
13	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	10 did	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	apologise speech: apologize not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			tree rules
3	do	past	he	the gate	humbly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1073-pg2892-part41/t14/